We are a highly experienced team with years of industry experience in broker, insurer and insurance intermediated technology solutions.
Simon Agar
Simon has over 30 years’ experience in information technology within the financial services sector. With a comprehensive understanding of the back office to client-facing technologies for small to large organisations. Simon has worked both locally and on international projects including overseeing the Placing Platform Limited (PPL) for Lloyd’s of London.
Formerly, the Chief Operating Officer of Ebix Australia, Simon was responsible for development, customer and professional services operations. Ebix was the market leader in Broker/Agency Management software, Transaction Exchanges and Insurance solutions in Australia and internationally. Simon was instrumental in the creating integrated payment solutions with Ebix’s Broker and Agency Management systems.
After 24 years with Ebix, Simon established his own consultancy firm ‘Risk IT’ to enable and advise on insurance technologies. Providing consulting services to a number of Australia and New Zealand’s top General insurance businesses
Vibul Imtarnasan
Vibul enjoys building technology businesses and specialises in General Insurance, B2B eBusiness platforms, Application and System Software Architecture and Web Technologies including .NET, Java and Scala.
Vibul has a long career in developing cutting edge technologies in the General Insurance space. As a co-founder and Director of Technology for BimTechnologies, he focused on developing windows and web based eBusiness software for Australian general insurance companies.
With the sale of BIMTECH to Telstra, Vibul was the brains trust in the development of a new web based B2B eBusiness platform that provided real time links between insurers and insurance brokers’ computing systems. The award-winning Sunrise Exchange platform received the 2002 Australia Interactive Media Industry Association award for Best eBusiness Product or Service, and the 2004 Australia & New Zealand Insurance Industry award for Innovation of the Year, as well as finalist for Service Provider of the Year.
After the sale of Sunrise Exchange to Ebix in 2007. Vibul co-founded Parlinkie which specialized in providing expertise and know-how to support general insurance industry based projects that link the business processes of different industry participants – intermediaries, insurers and premium funders. Vibul designed and architected and developed eSlips now known as the Steadfast Client Trading Platform (previously known as SVU), which was sold to Steadfast in 2010.
Vibul was Executive General Manager at Steadfast Group Limited and responsible for the software engineering and IT infrastructure teams for 12 years. He was responsible for both the INSIGHT Broking System redevelopment and the design, development and implementation of the Steadfast Client Trading Platform.
Kiersten Lethbridge
With 30+ years’ experience in developing software systems for General Insurance, Kiersten has an in-depth understanding of Insurance Broking back-office systems, trust accounting and General compliance requirements. Having spent 21 years working as General Manager for a division of Ebix Australia she was responsible for developing, supporting and training the WinBEAT product, Australia’s most popular broking system.
Kiersten spearheaded premium funders integration with WinBEAT which set the bar for other broking systems in the market.
Kiersten recently established an independent business, providing consulting, compliance and training services to the general insurance industry. With a strong background in management of both projects and people, Kiersten’s specialities include insurance broking, software training, technical and user documentation, software development for SMEs and customer relations and sales. Kiersten is well recognised as an expert in the insurance broking technology space.
Lisa Woodley
Lisa is a leading Australian technology pioneer with over 40 years experience in Australia, New Zealand and digital platforms that transform electronic distribution between insurers and their agents and brokers.
Known as an innovator, Lisa has created, led and participated in establishing industry leading digital platforms designed to address inefficiencies in the general insurance intermediary distribution channels, and is an advocate and leader in the promotion of ongoing improvements in this space.
Pioneering BIM Technologies, BIMnet solution in the late 90’s which was sold to Telstra in 2000, she was appointed to lead Telstra ebusiness which embarked on a major transformation program of the general insurance industry away from proprietary networks and software onto the internet and the introduction of the Sunrise Exchange platform. Sunrise Exchange is used by more than 95% of insurance brokers and over 16 insurers across over 40 product classes transacting over $1.5 billion in Gross written premiums annually.
Lisa is responsible for the introduction of the ACORD data standards into Australia and New Zealand acting for a consortia of Australian and international general insurance entities, as well as assisting companies establish the ACORD governance and advisory board for standards.
Lisa was instrumental in the creation and development of the Steadfast Client Trading Platform (previously known as SVU), which was sold to Steadfast in 2010, Lisa co- founded Steadfast Technologies, a subsidiary of Steadfast Limited, which is an ASX listed company. Steadfast’s SCTP platform is used by Steadfast brokers in Australia and New Zealand with 16 insurers across more than 10 product classes. Lisa was also responsible for the transformation and redesign of Steadfast’s INSIGHT broking platform which was launched in 2016 in Australia and New Zealand and has become a market leading insurance broking platform.
Lisa has experience as a director of private companies and as director of a number of subsidiary companies of Steadfast Australia’s largest insurance broking group which is listed on the ASX. She is also on the non for profit board of Where Pigs Fly Animal sanctuary which was established in 2014 to raise awareness and understanding of farmed animals through education, advocacy and community enrichment. Where Pigs Fly Farm Sanctuary also partners with Australia’s National disability scheme providers to provide services to disadvantaged and disabled youth.
We jointly formed PayHive Pty Ltd, bringing together industry leaders with over 80 years combined insurance industry expertise and experience to provide solutions, services and advise to insurers and insurance intermediaries.
“Our focus is to make our client’s business better, using existing and emerging technology, combined with our in-depth knowledge
of insurance distribution platforms, back-office systems
and broker operations”